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In reply to the discussion: Wasn't sure whether to believe the Anonymous/Rove story,until the reaction telling us to shut up @it [View all]Atman
(31,464 posts)Last edited Tue Nov 20, 2012, 02:39 PM - Edit history (1)
I've posted this at least half a dozen times, and you've been in on the threads, so I know you've seen it. ORCA is a complete non sequitur, just a distraction.
So, ONE MORE TIME: ORCA was merely a GOTV/Voter Demographics system designed for the Romney campaign and used nationwide. What the issue is is the last minute SOFTWARE PATCHES the Ohio SoC had installed on the voting machines in specific districts. Patches which he said would allow them to tabulate the votes and post them online in real time. And while the date was accessible right up until the end of election day, suddenly, just before the polls closed the system became inaccessible. No one could see these "real time" votes being tabulated.
Husted's "software patches" were supposed to be the magic bullet for the GOP, ORCA was an entirely different system running out of the Romney campaign HQ in Boston. My guess would be they expected it to be a lot closer, and flipping some votes in Ohio during the tabulation process, not at the machine level, was going to allow them say "See, you could watch the votes tabulate in real time! How can you say Romney didn't win?" But a funny thing happened...they were getting trounced all over America. Ohio was out of play, and their vote rigging would suddenly have been very suspect if exit polls showed Ohio went like the rest of the nation, but Romney still one.
It is certainly, IMHO, a very plausible scenario given Rove's reaction, and knowing what these weasels have done and tried to do in the past. I don't necessarily believe that Anon had anything to do with it, but perhaps he did. We'll never know. But I am not willing to just accept the "It's a conspiracy theory!" crap, either, or the cries from the "It was Obama's GOTV effort that won Ohio!" We simply DON'T KNOW, and those using ORCA as a smokescreen are deliberately muddying the waters into any legitimate inquiry...because if you are looking to ORCA for vote-flipping, you won't find it, and they'll be vindicated. But no one is questioning Husted's "software patches." That, to me, is very suspicious.